Metallic cover for barrel-heads



{No Model.)

A. M. HBLLMAN.

METALLIG GOVBB. PoR-BARREL HEADS@ No. 325,930. Patented Sept. 8,1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

ABRAHAM M. -HELLMAM oF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VMETALLIC COVER FOR BARREL-HEADS.

i SPECIFICATION forming part `of Letters Patent No. 325,930, dated September 8, 1885.

Application tiled June 27, 1885. A(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM M. HELLMAN, of the city ot'St. Louis, State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Covers for Barrel-Heads, of-which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specin'cation, and in which- Figure 1 is an end view of the barrel having my improved metal cover, and Fig. 2 is a detail section of the same.

My invention relates to a metal cover for barrel-heads, which is held in place by thehead, and which covers the entire surface of the head, preventing leakage in case of Worm-holes in the head; and the invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described,

, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, A represents part of the body of the barrel, and B the head,held in a croze, C, as usual. Outside of the head is my metallic cover D, which consists of a. disk of metal the size of the head, and which is held in shown in place in the croze C by the head, as Fig. 2. By thus securing the metallic cover in place no part of it is exposed to the contents of the barrel to be affected thereby or to affect the contents in any undesirable Way. In covering the entire outer face of the head, as it does, it prevents leakage through the head in case of Worm-ho1es or of irregularities in the joints of the head, and, moreover, it protects the head from exposure to the weather, so that it is not Warped and shrunk, as is frequently the ease With unprotected heads. It also affords convenientmeans for any design that may be desired on the head of the barrel, as shown in Fig. 1, which can be simply impressed therein.

I claim as myinvention In combination with the barrel having a Wooden head, a metallic disk covering the entire outer surface of the head of the barrel and extending with the head into the croze, sub- 45 stantially as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

ABRAHAM M. HELLMAN. In presence ofi GEO. H. KNIGHT, SAME. KNIGHT. 

